I decided to move away from Dashlane to 1Password for my personal password management recently. For those not in the know, a password manager effectively acts similar to how a web browser will remember your username/password for websites you’ve logged into previously. Still, it allows you to access those usernames/passwords from a secure vault in the cloud whenever you need them. From a security standpoint, I put it up there with antivirus in terms of its ability to mitigate everyday security vulnerabilities.
Dashlane started to feel stagnant over the last few years, in some cases regressing versus what the product was when I first started using it. 1Password addresses most of those concerns for me, with new features being actively added and a desktop application that’s separate from the browser extensions it uses to auto-fill passwords. Auto-fill detection is also noticeably better; Dashlane would often auto-fill my information into fields on some websites in an actively detrimental way, while I haven’t had a single issue with 1Password yet. I will say it requires a bit more hands-on maintenance to categorize your passwords and information if you want things laid out logically, but even ignoring that, it’s functionally the better product.
If I’ve piqued your interest, 1Password has instructions for moving your current credentials from web browsers or other password managers into its service. It will most likely involve exporting to a CSV file and importing that into 1Password, which won’t result in a 1-to-1 copy of the data. This didn’t actively hinder my move, though; the only thing that didn’t export properly from Dashlane was my personal/sensitive info (good on Dashlane for that, honestly).